Astonishing Quotes
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Alexander Ryazanov
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It gives me the most wonderful feeling. These dear people love me so much and want to see me. The astonishing thing is that when I made the Frankenstein" and "Dracula" movies almost 30 years ago the young audiences who see me now weren`t even born yet. A ...
Peter Cushing
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It`s astonishing to see how many of these Hollywood big-wigs are trying to undermine President Bush.
Shirley Jones
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[Regarding getting drug shots before each performance of the 1968 rock musical, "Hair"] At the time it was astonishing to have a job. It was odd. Before the show opened we got a shot by a doctor Bishop. A vitamin shot, only it was not vitamins. It was lik...
Diane Keaton
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I bluster my way through, and I sing rather like a rugby forward. Tommy (1975) is an amazing visual film and the music is astonishing. I think for anyone to translate The Who`s music in terms of images, it must be somebody like [Ken Russell]--or a lunatic...
Oliver Reed
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn`t interested any longer. That`s very astonishing.
Raymond Queneau
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What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off.
Andreas Marx
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The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that`s attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.
Andreas Marx
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The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
James Broughton
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The fact that someone came forward and offered $1.25 million to make a movie was astonishing. We were also allowed to keep many of the original stage cast.
Richard O-Brien
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Nothing could have prepared me for what it looked like. It was really like walking into ancient Rome, only it was as if someone had turned the color on. It was astonishing.
Lindsay Duncan
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My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.
Alex Kipp
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It`s astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It`s very sad.
Allen Bernstein
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It`s astonishing to realize the Legislature exempted themselves and are not bound to the same policies as the rest of state government.
Peter Fox
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It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen
Antony Koblish
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Isn`t it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
Amjad Jamal
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
Karolina Kurkova
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I know his work can be extravagant, ... But the first track on `Want One` is one of the most astonishing things that has come out in years. And I wanted to work with his scope. He has more than one string in his bow.
David Gray
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
Daniel Boone
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I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.
Jacqueline Bisset
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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
Ben Kingsley
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First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It`s astonishing. It pours out of him.
Andreas Marx
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Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.
Bruce Beresford
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Don`t you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?
Placido Domingo
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Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural
Alastair Reid
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As somebody who`s been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it`s astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
Anthony Holden
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And, as I have said, it`s made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren`t external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.
Alfred Steiglitz
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American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.
Alice Gilborn
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Abel Stevens
